GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB sales 27 June 2017. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Pascal architecture and made with 16 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 80 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Pascal (2016−2021) | |
| GPU code name | GP106 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 27 June 2017 (6 years ago) | |
| Current price | $979 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1280 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 1265 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1480 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 4,400 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 16 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 80 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 118.4 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 3,789 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 3 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 8008 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.2 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12.0 | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| CUDA | 6.1 |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB according to our statistics.
